The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1887-06-30

Mrs. Cleveland will be twenty-three
on the 21st of July.
Queen Victoria's favorite dessert is
tapioca pudding. Her favorite wine
is claret.
An exchange says, Biting the lips is
a bad habit So It's. Who'll bite a
girls lips is no gentleman.
Out in Colorado they call taking up
q church collection "collering the
stray DOODLE"
Note for fishermen: You can gen
orally fud big black bass in the
colored church choir.
The liquor-tax bill passed by the
Michigan legislature provides for tax
ranging from $500 to $500.
Visitors at the White Mountain ho-
tells this year are requested to swear at
the walters in Greek and Latin.
The officials at Washington have no
faith in the rumors announcing a rev.
olution in Honolulu.
The old comparison, good as
wheat" has been discarded by the
Chicago board of trade men.
Bishop Warren, of the Methodist
Episcopal church, is on his way to
China, to look after the missions there.
Private Secretary Lamont is quoted
as saying that the Presidents cabin in
the Adirondacks cost him "only ~
day"
A widow may not be much of a
gardner, but she always has an idea
that she can raise orange blossoms
from weeds.
If the woman could vote and the
constitutional bar as to age sould be
removed perhaps Mrs. Cleveland
would be elected by large majority
Governor Lee Of Virginia says from
the information be possesses that he
is safe in saying that the Virginia
State debt will soon be paid
Though Gould has retired from
business" he hasn't forgotten his old
tricks, and makes things hum on Wal
street occasionally.
Ex- Gov. Gilphin of Colorado, has {
young wife who taps him on the heaC
with tack hammer when he refuses
her money. He is suing for di
vorce.
There are 104 papers in TENNESSEE
supporting the prohibition amend
ment. A few oppose and a few are blow
ing hot and cold anda few are afraid tt
say.
The wives OF Secretary Whitney anC
Postmaster General Villas have left tn,
national capaitol for the season, Mrs
Whitney will go to Lenox; Mrs. Vii
las to her home in Wisconsin.
Yesterday was a sad day for thos
who put their trust in coffee, To-da,
those who put their trust in wheat ar
sad About the only safe thing t.
trust is live newspaper.
The new wide sleeve is a grea
scheme for the girl whose arm lack
avoirdupois, and also for the maideI
whose arms looks as if she could kic
like mule.
Henry George and Dr,McGlynn ar
said to be willing to sacrifice then
selves on the legislative altar, provide
their friends will take the hint an
ask them to run.
Charles Hewrokin, Chicago opel
ator who joined the New York Stoc
Exchange on January 10th, 1885,
notified that Exchange last week, ths
he was unable to meet his contracts.
General Fairchild must be ver
proud of his little prayer for the di
tributiou of those three differeI
kinds of palsy. The President, by IL
way, seems to be unusually we'll
G. w. Mccormick, a wealthy citizt
of Thomasville, Ga, recently presen
ed the pastor of each church in tn
city with house and lot M
Mccormick is not member of al
church himself.
Gen. Tuttle, of Iowa, denounc,
Missouri as a "rebel'' State. The Ge
eral forgot to state that Missouri sci
10000 more troops to the Union arm
than Iowa. But most of these troo
vote the Democratic ticket, and henC
accordingly to Gen. Tuttle, are re
els.